An interesting article in the Times about the “glamour” of drug use prompted the realization that drug policy - both here and abroad - has to date followed the classical cycle of instability and revolution familiar to students of history the world over.
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Wikileaks, newly freed from their spurious lawsuit, have posted a whole bunch of new stuff in the last day or two - including a military map of Iraq (10MB PDF). Marked “Secret”, the 2005 map shows the location of all the military bases in the country, as well as all the MSRs and ASRs - including “ASR Minneapolis”. (Alas, there’s no “ASR St Paul”. Pity.) An useful reference, if you’ve ever wondered just where a particular FOB happens to be…